Tagged Questions

Questions related to Suspend Mode, which is a special low-power mode often used on laptops that preserves the contents of RAM while using less power than normal.
Questions related to suspending to disk should use the [hibernate] tag.

I was happily using 14.04 with my Lenovo Y50. When I installed it, I had some troubles making my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 2GB works with hardware acceleration, etc, but at the end everything was OK.
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I have a Lenovo Flex 2 with AMD A6 CPU and 4 GB RAM. It came pre-installed with Windows 8.1. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it (single boot). But I am facing problems as the laptop does not wake up from ...

When I turn on my PC it will resume from sleep. Sometimes it will be 'frozen'. The time will be a few hours behind and the keyboard doesn't work at all. I can move the mouse. I can't use any keyboard ...

Once again I need a workaround to deal with my almost broken notebook graphics card: It does not wake up after suspending!
The Ubuntu 14.10 system is waking up, but the display stays off, so I have ...

After waiting well beyond my scheduled "sleep when inactive" time, the computer is still awake. I wiggle the mouse and unlock the machine to find an error notification in the upper corner, it read as ...

I have been having trouble with my notebook lately... I run 14.04 LTS version of ubuntu on a thinkpad x1 carbon form lenovo (2nd generation), and it seems like everytime I wake my laptop from suspend, ...

Recently my laptop started to freeze when I reopen the lid after some period of time. The only thing that helps is to hold the power button for a few seconds and boot the laptop again.
I have no idea ...

I have a computer, it is an ultrabook (fujitsu UH572). This computer doesn't have any problem when installing ubuntu into internal SSD. But when I install the ubuntu 14.04.2 on an external USB 3 HDD ...

I'll try to make the background/step-by-step as short as possible:
Install ubuntu on an old laptop so I could use it as a media center with Kodi.
Do all updates/configs to make it look good.
Want to ...

I have a Lenovo z510 running Ubuntu 14.04.02.(kernel version = 3.16.0-30-generic)
It has a suspend problem, when I suspend my laptop I can't wake it up properly. Laptop will turn on but screen remain ...

I installed Kubuntu 14.10 on my computer . The problem comes after md sleep off my computer screen. When I open the login screen I enter my password and the computer shuts down suddenly. My computer ...

Everytime I come out of suspend mode, the login screen loads up fine (it's from ubuntu) but then I get this when I log into Kubuntu. Also as a side note all the time many of my desktop effects have ...

I am wanting to know is it possible to have sleep in a bash script have a variable time that is read from a file? I am wanting to perform operations in the script that vary in length that will have ...

This is a new laptop that I just bought. Came with Windows 8.1, now is a dual-boot.
Sound Controls and Mute work with F9, F10, F11 like they do in Windows, but F12 for WiFi, F2 and F3 for brightness ...

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 on my Macbook 5,1 and when I close the lid to suspend it for any amount of time my computer just goes black or freezes at the login screen. On the few occasions this hasn't ...

i am using Ubuntu 14.04 in HP pavilion G4 laptop with AMD A4 vision processor. the problem i have is that when i close my laptop lid my laptop goes to sleep mode. but when i open it doesnt resume. i ...

I have a very strange problem.
Whenever I suspend Ubuntu (12.04.5, just installed) I cannot enter any text normally. The screen is "refreshing" with every keystroke (like blink white) and for example ...

the disk drive for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is not ready yet or not present shows on startup but ubuntu starts normally. I can move my mouse when i wake computer from suspend but nothing else works.
I ...

I recently switched over to using Xubuntu after getting a new (to me) Acer Aspire 5100. I have everything up to date in the OS. When I close the lid, everything suspends just fine and my laptop goes ...

I have a thinkpad yoga s1 with i7 cpu, hd4400 graphic card and Ubuntu 14.04.01 installed. The computer freezes when closing lid but if I suspend it before I close the lid, it won't freeze next time ...

I have reformatted an SD card with ext4, and I want my laptop to treat it like a HDD. That means I want it to auto-mount from /etc/fstab. My purpose is to create a user with home directory on the SD ...

The mechanical hard drive on my netbook keeps spinning up and down. That makes an annoying sound and is bad for its health. I run sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda and that stops it untill a suspend/wake ...

I recently acquired a Lenovo G50, after installing Ubuntu 14.10 (updated to the latest), I could not connect via WiFi. I found a solution that asked me to do sudo modprobe -r ideapad-laptop that only ...

My Ubuntu 14.10 is not suspending as it should, when I click on Suspend from the upper menu panel, the screen goes black for some seconds then it shows what seem to be error messages of some sort and ...

I'm a new user, and I'm very happy so far, except for one hiccup - my laptop will not wake from suspend (if I shut case, or suspend through commands). I've tried everything I could find, changed my ...

I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my HP laptop. I enabled hibernate, but when I choose suspend or hibernate everything goes fine except that it does not wake up. It freezes on resuming.
lspci -nn ...

I can use sudo pm-hibernate to put my laptop into a low power state, but I have to press the power button to turn it back on. Is there a way I can put it into a low power state that can then be turned ...

I have a laptop that I sometimes want to use with separate peripherals; external monitor, external keyboard and external mouse. When in this mode, I want to keep the laptop closed and tucked away (as ...